Company News: North America

News on transmission equipment and service providers from North America

• Fugro secures contract for cable route survey for offshore wind in Maine

  February 19, 2021
  The Netherlands-based offshore and onshore geotechnical and survey services company Fugro, has secured a contract from the New England Aqua Ventus, LLC (NEAV)—a joint venture between Diamond Offshore Wind (subsidiary of the Mitsubishi Corporation) and RWE Renewables—to conduct a cable route survey for the New England Aqua Ventus I floating wind project off the coast of Maine.

• EoS secures contract for California energy storage project [free access]

  January 7, 2021
  New Jersey-based EoS Energy Storage LLC—an energy equipment and solution provider—secured a USD20 million contract from EnerSmart, a developer, owner and operator of utility-scale energy storage projects to provide at least 90 MWh, and as much as 180 MWh, of energy storage over the next 24 months.

• Ventolines bags consultancy contract for Massachusetts offshore wind project

  December 17, 2020
  The Netherlands-headquartered Ventolines has got on board as the offshore wind expertise partner for the Mayflower Wind Project in Massachusetts, USA.

• Eos to provide battery solutions for energy storage projects in US

  November 10, 2020
  New Jersey-based Eos Energy Storage LLC—an energy equipment and solution provider—signed an agreement with Hecate Energy—a developer, owner and operator of renewable energy (RE) projects and storage solutions in North America, to supply battery solutions to over 1 GWh of energy storage projects, for an estimated value of about USD250 million.

• MYR Group awarded construction contract for Marcy to New Scotland project

  September 16, 2020
  MYR Group Inc. (MYR)—an electrical construction service company operating in the US and Western Canada—has announced the upcoming execution of a contract with LS Power Grid New York Corporation, an affiliate of LS Power, to provide procurement and construction services for the Marcy to New Scotland Upgrade Project, New York.

• NPPD awards contract for 115 kV line refurbishment

  September 15, 2020
  The Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) has contracted the South Dakota-based Forbes Brothers Timberline Construction Inc., for the refurbishment of a 115 kV transmission line in southwest Nebraska, due to its aging infrastructure.

• EoS announces agreement with International Electric Power for 1 GWh project

  September 10, 2020
  New Jersey-based EoS Energy Storage—an energy equipment and solution provider—announced that it has entered into a binding agreement to supply 1 GWh of standalone battery energy storage systems (BESS) to International Electric Power, LLC (IEP),an independent power producer in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, for grid-connected projects with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).

• Mitsubishi, Powin secure 200 MW BESS projects in Texas [free access]

  August 21, 2020
  Key Capture Energy (KCE)—a large-scale energy storage independent power producer (IPP)—has selected Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas, Inc. (MHPS) and Powin Energy Corporation (Powin) to build three utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) projects totalling 200 MW in Texas.

• Linxon bags contract for onshore substation in Massachusetts

  August 18, 2020
  Linxon, a joint venture (JV) between Swiss-Swedish multinational corporation ABB and Canadian engineering services company SNC-Lavalin, has bagged a contract for the construction of an onshore substation for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project in Massachusetts, USA.

• ATCO, Quanta win concession to operate and modernise Puerto Rico's transmission grid

  June 23, 2020
  Canadian Utilities Limited, an ATCO Group company, and Quanta Services, Inc. as a consortium, have won a contract to modernise and operate Puerto Rico's electric transmission and distribution system.

• Siemens gets HV equipment contract for US Mayflower offshore wind project

  June 9, 2020
  The German energy-engineering firm Siemens has bagged a contract from the Denmark-based Semco Maritime, to provide the main equipment for the electrical service platform (ESP) for the Mayflower offshore wind farm to be located in the south of Nantucket, Massachusetts in the US.

• Great River Energy and Form Energy sign contract for energy storage project

  May 26, 2020
  Massachusetts-based Form Energy, a company developing energy storage for the grid, signed a contract with Minnesota-based utility, Great River Energy, to jointly deploy a 1 MW/150 MWh pilot project to be located in Cambridge, Minnesota.

• NECEC awards contracts worth USD7 million to four Maine-based companies

  April 17, 2020
  New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) LLC has recently signed contracts worth USD7 million with four Maine companies, Eastern Forest Products in Casco, Maine Mats in Bingham, Dimensional Timber in Palermo, and Sunset Development Inc. in Milford, for various works related to the NECEC project.

• NECEC LLC awards USD300 million contract to Cianbro

  April 8, 2020
  New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) LLC has awarded more than USD300 million in contracts to Maine’s largest general contractor Cianbro, in a joint venture (JV) with Irby Construction, Sargent Electric and Northern Clearing, Inc. (NCI), to build and upgrade transmission systems and securing land clearing permissions for the NECEC project.

• Trans Mountain and Valard Construction to construct 138 kV line in Canada with LNIBDC

  March 10, 2020
  British Columbia-based Trans Mountain Corporation and Valard Construction LP (Valard) have entered into a partnership with Lower Nicola Indian Band Development Corporation (LNIBDC) to build, own, operate and maintain the new 138 kV Kingsvale electricity transmission line that will run through the LNIBDC’s traditional territory.

• Transource Energy awards line contract to Harlan Electric for IEC project

  January 13, 2020
  Transource Energy, owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and Evergy Inc., has selected Harlan Electric as the line contractor for the Independence Energy Connection (IEC) project, despite the fact that the project has yet to be approved by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC).

• US-based ARPA-E awards project to V&R Energy, PNNL, PacifiCorp and Google

  October 1, 2019
  California-based V&R Energy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), PacifiCorp, and Google have been awarded a project on `High Performance Adaptive Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Real-Time Emergency Control (HADREC) to Enhance Power Grid Resilience in Stochastic Environment’, from Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).

• NYPA approve five-year contract to Kenny Construction Company for 345 kV line

  September 27, 2019
  The New York Power Authority’s (NYPA) trustees have approved a five-year contract of about USD11.1 million for Kenny Construction Company, Chicago, to manage the laydown areas for the Moses–Adirondack Smart Path Reliability Project.

• Valard receives EPC contract for Wataynikaneyap Transmission Project in Canada

  September 10, 2019
  Valard Construction (Valard), a subsidiary of Canada-based Quanta Services, has received an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from Wataynikaneyap Power LP for the Wataynikaneyap Transmission Project (Watay Project) in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.

• NYSERDA awards two projects to promote research of cleaner grid technologies

  July 22, 2019
  New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has awarded two grid enhancement projects to the Analysis Laboratory for Synchrophasor and Electrical Energy Technology (ALSETLab) at Rensselaer in collaboration with the Advanced Grid Innovation Lab for Energy (AGILe) at New York Power Authority (NYPA).